Founding and Past Presidents

The Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science (FIS) in Beijing 2010 was chaired by K. Ouyang, W. Hofkirchner and P. Marijuán. A committee was established to prepare the founding of an International Society for Information Studies.

Founding Presidents

Prof. Dr. Kang Ouyang is Vice-President of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Director of the Institute of Philosophy of HUST, and Director of the Social Information Study Insititute (SISI). Besides he is the Chief Editor of Journal of HUST for Social Sciences.

Dr. Pedro C. Marijuan is Senior Researcher at the Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (the Institute of Health Sciences of Aragón). He is the founder of the Foundations of Information Science movement that held conferences in Madrid 1944, Vienna 1996, Paris 2005 and Beijing 2010.

Univ.Doz. Dr. Wolfgang Hofkirchner is Associate Professor at the Institute of Design and Technology Assessment of the Informtics Faculty of the Vienna University of Technology. He is Head of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group, co-ordinates the ICTs-and-Society Network and is President of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna.

K. Ouyang, W. Hofkirchner and P. Marijuán

Past Presidents

Prof. Dr. Kang Ouyang

one of our Founding Presidents was Immediate Past-President until 2013. He is Vice-President of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Director of the Institute of Philosophy of HUST, and Director of the Social Information Study Insititute (SISI). Besides he is the Chief Editor of Journal of HUST for Social Sciences.